Bombshell: Jarryd Hayne to face retrial after winning appeal

There has been a major development in the case of former NRL star Jarryd Hayne, with a ruling handed down on Monday.

Former NRL superstar Jarryd Hayne has had his sexual assault conviction overturned and is set to face a third trial.

The Court of Criminal Appeal on Monday quashed his conviction after he last year applied to the state’s highest court.

Mr Hayne, 33, had been in jail for over nine months having been sentenced to at least three years and nine months in prison for the alleged sexual assault of a woman in her Newcastle home on NRL grand final night in 2018.

Jarryd Hayne was in May last year sentenced to spend at least three years and eight months in prison. Photo: Sam Mooy/Getty Images.

Jarryd Hayne during his playing days with the Parramatta Eels. Picture AAP Image/Darren Pateman.

A District Court jury in March last year found the former Dally M winner guilty of two counts of sexual assault, accepting the woman’s version of events that he performed digital and oral sex on her without her consent.

He was subsequently sentenced by Judge Helen Syme to five years and nine months jail, with a non-parole period of three years and eight months.

He launched an appeal against his conviction claiming the NSW District Court jury was given flawed directions and there were inconsistencies in the evidence.

And the Court of Appeal quashed his convictions and ordered him to face a fresh trial.

MORE TO COME.

Originally published as Bombshell: Jarryd Hayne to face retrial after winning appeal